The PS3 has always sucked when it has come to viewing Youtube videos. They’ve hardly been viewable in the web browser with horrible quality. However, a while back a dedicated Youtube app was finally released. In order to install it on your PS3, go to TV/Video Services -> My Channels -> Youtube. Works great.

What’s even better is that in the latest update for the iOS Youtube app that came out today, they’ve added support for pairing your iPhone to your PlayStation 3 which allows you to search for videos on your phone and then show it on your TV via your PS3. I don’t know how long I’ve been waiting for this. It’s extremely convenient. And, yes, you can watch the videos in HD.

I’m using an old first generation WD TV HD media player for watching my dramas (got it for the subtitle support that the PS3 lacks). I was curious about whether it’d work with a hardware encrypted hard drive. I googled a little, but didn’t find any specifics. The manual suggests that it’s compatible with older Western Digital drives with “drive lock”, which is just a password lock (no encryption). I didn’t find anything about compatibility with current hard drives.

So I went out and bought a new WD My Passport, enabled encryption and connected it to my WD TV. The WD TV recognizes the encrypted drive. It asks you to unlock it by entering the password using your remote and then it works like a normal hard drive. As long as the WD TV has power (including stand-by), the drive stays unlocked. Once you eject or unplug the drive or the WD TV loses power, the drive locks down and you have to use the password to unlock it again.

I just thought I’d post this in case anyone else is googling for the same thing. The current My Passport drives work out of the box with the WD TV HD (oldest version, Gen 1) with encryption enabled.

The drive won’t work with the PS3 though. Get a basic (and FAT32 formatted) USB drive for that. Only get this particular drive if you want to use hardware encryption.

I recently bought an LG Roboking robotic vacuum cleaner and thought I’d write up a review of it, and perhaps clear up some misconceptions I’ve seen online.

The version I got is the LG Roboking VR6171LVM, which is the second newest Korean model at the moment. The Roboking is sold under the name LG Hom-bot in a few European countries, but not here in Sweden.

I will be comparing it to my old iRobot Roomba Discovery SE (4xx-series). I’ve been using the Roboking daily for about two and a half weeks.

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Since the amount of Asian music videos that I have had reached a critical point, I had to go out and buy a new hard drive today. I thought I’d use this one solely for Asian music — especially for K-Pop, which fills up disks pretty quickly with all the high-definition material out there.

This is the one I picked out. It seemed fitting for the task at hand. Writing a “K-Pop” label on this disk would be kind of redundant .

(It’s a Samsung G2 Portable 500GB Coral Blue)

On Friday I got a X-mas present that I bought for myself

It’s a new laptop! An Asus UL30Vt. It’s one of those “super slim, but still not a netbook” kind of laptops. I didn’t want a netbook, since I mean to use it as my main computer, so the screen can’t be any smaller than this (yes, I’m writing this on the UL30 ).

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A few weeks ago I bought a Panasonic SC-HC3 (it just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?) sound system.

It’s a pretty neat “micro system” that has radio, CD and iPod docking. It has a motorized sliding door which opens to the right if you want to access the iPod dock and to the left for the CD. The door is transparent (smoked) in front of the iPod, so you can see the iPod’s display through it.

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I have been resisting the iPod for a long time. Mainly because of how “locked in” it is with its iTunes requirement (I know there are alternative programs).

One morning I was on my way to work and was listening to music on my cellphone… or at least I was trying to. The headphone adapter came off one time and the phone thought I had pressed the hands-free button three times. I had had enough.

I went looking for a new MP3-player on my lunch break and, as it turns out, the selection is horrifyingly small where I live, so I decided to go against my principles and get an iPod.

I got the latest Nano. I was going to get a 16 GB version, but they didn’t have the colour I wanted at the Apple store, so I got an 8 GB version instead. I also went back later to buy a pack of “iPod socks” (the sock in the picture is supposed to be green - the lighting conditions weren’t exactly ideal when I took the photo)

So far, I can say that iTunes works great with podcasts, and sub-par at basically everything else. I activated the “sound check” feature which caused iTunes to raise the volume of a few random songs by 100% for no apparent reason. … Continue reading

I’ve written previously about the iRobot Roomba automatic vacuum cleaner that I bought in November 2006. I’ve had it replaced once (broken speaker) and repaired once (dead battery) within its two year warranty.

Recently the Roomba stopped working again. Yesterday I did some diagnostics and it turned out that the right outer cliff sensor wasn’t working properly. The infra-red detector was working (it reacted to the beam from a virtual wall), but the emitter wasn’t… emitting. I could tell by looking through my digital camera, which picks up infra-red light.

I didn’t want to buy a new Roomba, since they’re quite expensive. And the problem annoyed me since I don’t even need a cliff sensor. I live in a one floor apartment.

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Today I picked up my long awaited Mad Catz Street Fighter IV FightStick for my PS3. I’ve never played with an arcade stick before, only regular hand controllers, so it was a bit weird getting used to how to push the buttons.

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Today I got my the Audio Technica ATH-EQ300M WH headphones that I ordered about a week and a half ago from Korea. This is presumably the same model of headphones that BoA wears in her Eien PV.

The headphones came in a rediculously large box, so I thought I’d post some unboxing pics

Hmm, isn’t this box a bit large for shipping a pair of headphones?

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